O God Most High,
our refuge and our fortress;
teach us how to trust in you.
We are anxious about many things:
ourselves, our families, the affairs of the world.
We want to please you, too, but our interests are divided.
Jesus taught his disciples to go out with nothing;
they had to learn to depend entirely on you.
Joseph had learned to do that,
and he had learned the peace
that comes from forgiving.
Trusting in you makes
forgiving easier.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 34; 146; 25;
91
Gen. 45:1-15
1 Cor. 7:32-40
Mark 6:1-13
Selected Verses
Ps. 91:1-2
You who live in
the shelter of the Most High,
who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,
will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust.”
who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,
will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust.”
Gen. 45:4b-5
[Joseph said,
"I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed, or angry with
yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve
life. …
1 Cor. 7:32-34a
I want you to be
free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the
Lord, how to please the Lord; but the married man is anxious about the affairs
of the world, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided.
Mark 6:8-9
[Jesus] ordered [his
disciples] to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag,
no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics.
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